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...yesterday morning, however, Novak said he woke up "feeling much better...
...friend, who put her in touch with a travel agency that offered her seven days all inclusive in sunny Athens for $800. A few days later she was in the back of a hired car, bound she hoped for the Mediterranean and an early glimpse of summer. Instead she woke up in Hungary. After taking a sip from a spiked orange drink she had passed out, waking to the words: "You are no longer in Moldova. You have been sold...
Once upon a time, it seemed that nearly all stories began at the beginning (or even "In the beginning..."). They ended at The End. Then came the 20th century. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan stepped down the opening sentence of Ulysses, Gregor Samsa woke up a cockroach, and nothing was the same anymore. The dream logic of surrealism, the theater of the absurd, the shock edits of the French New Wave all followed. Soon you could have an ape-man throw a bone in the air and--blink--it's an orbiting spaceship...
...didn't happen this time. Almost no one, from White House correspondents to GOP advisers, is buying the "mistake" line. Instead, this is widely perceived as a case of political short-sightedness that the Bush team was able to pull away from before it caused any real damage. "Somebody woke up over there and said, 'Whoa, wait a second. This is contrary to Bush being the unifier he wants to be,'" Republican strategist Jim Innocenzi told Thursday?s USA Today...
Life as Steven Soderbergh then knew it came to end when he was 12 years old. He had been quite a baseball player, one of the best you could find among the boys in Baton Rouge, La. But in 1975 his talent mysteriously disappeared. "I woke up one morning, and I didn't have it," he recalls. "And I knew that I wasn't gonna be able to get it back. Whatever the thing was, it was just gone...